NBC News - More than half of Senate Republicans, including some in senior
leadership positions, privately say they don’t see a path for former
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be confirmed as attorney general and would
not support him to lead the Department of Justice, according to multiple
people who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.
AP - President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration. CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, Wright is a vocal advocate of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of Trump’s quest to achieve U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market.
Wright
has been one of the industry’s loudest voices against efforts to fight
climate change, and could give fossil fuels a boost, including quick
action to end a year-long pause on natural gas export approvals by the Biden administration.
Independent, UK - he US House of Representatives is considering a bill that critics say would allow president-elect Donald Trump to go after his political enemies and tax-exempt organizations, including news outlets, universities and civil society groups.
If enacted, HR 9495 would give the incoming president and his secretary of the Treasury the ability to investigate tax-exempt organizations based on an accusation of wrongdoing. The bill was introduced in September by three Republican members and one Democrat.
The legislators allege a large portion of support for terrorist organizations in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on Israel has been funded by tax-exempt organizations, citing reports of material support going to designated terrorist groups.
Current law does not allow the Internal Revenue Service to suspend the tax-exempt status of organizations that have provided material support to such organizations, but it is a federal crime for non-profits to provide material support to terrorist organizations.
Mother Jones - Trump has a plan to make thousands of federal career civil servants “at will” employees and, in turn, fireable for not doing what the new administration demands.
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